[stackz125]

Anyone got the figures of books loosing or winning on Super Bowl???
Any report out yet?

[kmarinouofm]

they got smoked.. all teasers hit no matter what you played..... both the favorite side and moneyline and the over hit on their own..

This will go down as probably one of the worst years ever if not the worst..

[VeggieDog]

I'm worried. Should we start a GoFundMe account for them?

[kmarinouofm]

I'm worried. Should we start a GoFundMe account for them?

Trump will bail them out.. it will be yuge.

[RangeFinder]

they got smoked.. all teasers hit no matter what you played..... both the favorite side and moneyline and the over hit on their own..

This will go down as probably one of the worst years ever if not the worst..

Completely false. Books did okay without hardly any liability.

https://www.boston.com/sports/super-...-falcons-vegas

[LT Profits]

Worst case would have been Pats winning by a FG in OT, it would have meant much of the record handle would be returned and that everyone that bought the hook off of 3 either way would have won.

[LT Profits]

they got smoked.. all teasers hit no matter what you played..... both the favorite side and moneyline and the over hit on their own..

This will go down as probably one of the worst years ever if not the worst..

Sharps were all over Falcons and Under, that helped offset all the public money on Pats + Over.

[kmarinouofm]

Completely false. Books did okay without hardly any liability.

https://www.boston.com/sports/super-...-falcons-vegas

I read articles too..

Doesn't take a genius to realize the books got killed bro..

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/su...riots-victory/

[rizespor]

Was a bad year in nfl for the books overall but super bowl probably wasn't too bad. Nothing like the NCAA Championship bloodbath

[pilebuck13]

The real numbers will never surface...all guesses and fake news

[lakerboy]

The real numbers will never surface...all guesses and fake news

Believe me

[physed]

William Hill only loser because of in game betting.

[Cookie Monster]

We can discuss all day with our guesses, but the hard numbers are in: Handle $138.5, books profit $10 million, hold of 7.9%.

The CBS article is the usual BS told by Will Hill. They have been for months saying the public is winning this year. Crying for a 100 live bets winning at +1000 or better, or the usual square props (overtime, 2-pt conversion, missed XP), where about 90% of tickets cashed. Of course, the 10% losing tickets are usually much bigger bets by sharps hammering on soft numbers. And of course, they say nothing about the public props that lost (safety, Julio Jones TD, etc). Guess who is interested on persuading the public they can beat the books?

But the line movements are there to read. During the week there was a very slight movement towards Falcons, and a full point move to the under. My guess is that books would have preferred a Atl cover on spread and NE win on ML, but they did OK as the game went. The total was likely a winner for books. OTOH, they lost on teasers. And boston.com article posted by RangeFinder seems to confirm my guess.

Even though books often want to take position on a game, holding the lines steady even when public money is in one side, in the superbowl they cannot take willingly a massive exposure. And the lines moved against public money, guess why? As LT Profit correctly states, public money on favorite and over was balanced by sharp money on dog and even more in under.